Opeth
Pixies
Vernon Dalhart
Sarah Barrios
Merle Haggard
Warren Haynes
Eilen Jewell
Musical Birthday Notes – April 6th
- Vernon Dalhart – multi-award winning country singer/songwriter – hits include – Wreck of the Old 97 – Prisoner’s Song – 1970 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame – 1981 Country Music Hall of Fame – (4/6/1983 – 9/14/1948)
- Dorothy Donegan – jazz-boogie woogie pianist/vibraphone – (4/6/1922 – 5/19/1998)
- Charlie Rouse – hard bop saxophone/flute – associated acts include – Thelonious Monk – Dizzy Gillespie – Count Basie – Duke Ellington – (4/6/1924 – 11/30/1988)
- Gerald “Gerry” Mulligan – jazz saxophone/clarinet/composer – associated acts include – Miles Davis – Stan Kenton – compositions – Walkin’ Shoes – Five Brothers – are considered jazz standards – (4/6/1927 – 1/20/1996)
- Merle Haggard – legendary multi-award winning country singer/songwriter/guitar/fiddle/bass – hits include – Mama Tried – Workin’ Man Blues – Fightin’ Side Of Me – Okie From Muskogee – Sing Me Back Home – I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink – Big City – 1977 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame – 1994 Country Music Hall of Fame – 1997 Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame – 2006 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award – 2010 Kennedy Center Honor – (4/6/1937 – 4/6/2016)
- Charles Wright – soul-funk singer – Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – hits include – Express Yourself – Do Your Thing – Till You Get Enough – 1940
- Louis “Louie” Shelton – session guitarist/producer – associated acts include – Seals and Crofts – The Monkees – England Dan and John Ford Coley – Art Garfunkel – 2007 Musicians Hall of Fame as a member of “The Wrecking Crew” – 2013 Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame – 1941
- Julie Rogers – traditional pop singer – best known for the 1964 hit – The Wedding (Song) – 1943
- Noah Howard – jazz saxophonist – associated acts include – Frank Wright – (4/6/1943 – 9/3/2010)
- John Stax – English bassist/harmonica – best known as the original bassist for – The Pretty Things – 1944
- Tony Connor – drummer – Hot Chocolate – group hits include – You Sexy Thing – Every 1’s A Winner – 1947
- Gordon Giltrap – acoustic and electric guitarist/composer – 1948
- Ralph Cooper – Australian drummer – best known with – Air Supply – group hits include – Lost In Love – Here I Am – Even The Nights Are Better – 1951
- Christopher Franke – keyboards/synth/drums/composer – best known with – Tangerine Dream – 1953
- John Pizzarelli Jr. – jazz guitarist – session musician – associated acts include – Paul McCartney – James Taylor – 1960
- Warren Haynes – rock-blues guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/producer – associated acts include – The Allman Brothers Band – Gov’t Mule – Dickey Betts Band – David Allen Coe – The Dead – solo artist – 1960
- Frank Black/Black Francis (Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) – singer/songwriter/guitarist – best known with – Pixies – 1965
- Roy Moyorga – drummer – best known with metal group – Stone Sour – associated acts include Channel Zero – Black President – Soulfly – 1970
- Martin Mendez – progressive death metal bassist – Opeth – 1978
- Eilen Jewell – Americana-folk-country-blues singer/songwriter/guitar/harmonica – albums include – Sundown Over Ghost Town – Down Hearted Blues – Gypsy – 1979
- Kari Jobe – award winning contemporary Christian singer/songwriter/musician – 1981
- Michael Guy Chislett – Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist – associated acts include – Academy Is – Hillsong United – 1982
- Jeremy Bolm – post-hardcore singer/writer/producer/record label owner – associated acts include – Touche’ Amore’ – Hesitation Wounds – Thriller – Deadhead – 1983
- Max Bemis – singer/composer/lyricist/musician – Say Anything – Two Tongues – 1984
- Alexander Beggins – indie-pop singer/ukulele – founding member of – Wild Child – 1988
- Adam Juwig – guitarist – Anarbor – 1989
- Brian Burkheiser – metal-core – punk singer – clean vocalist for – I Prevail – 1993
- Sarah Barrios – acoustic-indie-pop-blues singer/songwriter – 1994
- Rena Lovelis – vocals/bass/guitar – best known with all female group – Cherri Bomb – 1998